Music by Leopold Godowsky

A trove of hard-to-find scores by the incomparable Leopold Godowsky.

Most of these are long out of print and were photographed for my own research use.

As of this writing, Carl Fischer is reissuing collected volumes in what appears to be a comprehensive series: a must for any fan. To date, only one volume has issued.

Scores open in a new window. Images scale to the window width. I find it handy to read them on my laptop at the piano. Click on a page to "turn it" and skip to the next one. Each page is a GIF file at approx. 200dpi (gray scale), sized to be 10.5" high. So, you should be able to print from the browser and get one full-sized image per page. I print 2-up in landscape layout, and only carry the sheets I'm working on, rather than piles of thick scores in a heavy briefcase.

Of some interest are the Star Spangled Banner, and the Last Waltz, neither of which seem to turn up in the catalogs of works that I've seen.

A few other Godowsky links:

www.godowsky.com
The official, comprehensive site.

www.carlfischer.com
CF are issuing a new and pretty complete Godowsky collection.

www.geocities.com/alanchan1048576/mus/godowsky.html
Alan Chan's Godowsky page. Scans and recordings of the Chopin etudes.
Some of Marc Andre Hamelin's thorny scores are here.

Michael Hawley
mike@media.mit.edu


Bach: violin sonatas
(xxx)

Chopin: waltz in Ab, op.64n3
(1.5Mb, 11 pages)

Chopin: waltz in f, op.70n2
(1.3Mb, 9 pages)

Chopin-Godowsky: etude in E, after trois nouvelles etudes, n2
(600Kb, 8 pages)

Godowsky: 12 Impressions, for Piano & Violin
(9.9Mb)

Godowsky: Java Suite
(17.7Mb)

Godowsky: Renaissance arrangements of 16 baroque gems
(17.6Mb total)

Godowsky: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Strauss
(10.6Mb total)

Weber: Invitation to the Dance, for 2 (or 3) pianos
(9.1Mb, 75 pages)
...optional third piano part
(3.4Mb, 27 pages)

Smith: The Star Spangled Banner
(740Kb, 5 pages)

Oskar Straus: The Last Waltz
(585Kb, 4 pages; LG's manuscript copy?)

Schubert: An Mignon
(2.4Mb, 10 pages)

Schubert: Litanei
(2.2Mb, 8 pages)

Schubert: Ungeduld
(2.7Mb, 12 pages)